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It is needful here to lay in a supply of 

 small change. Dollars, quarter-dollars, reals, 

 medias, and quartillas. 



The bogas and patron being collected the 

 previous evening at Baranquilla/ were pre- 

 vented from coming up to Solidad during 

 the morning by the strength of the w^ind, 

 which was excessively high. They arrived 

 however in the evening in a champan, in 

 which we embarked all our things in order 

 to proceed the following morning. 



Mr. Bray, a young merchant, joined our 

 ' party, as he was proceeding in the same di- 

 rection. 



3rd. Embarked about nine o'clock this 

 morning, leaving Colonel Rieux to follow 

 in a piragua which he had procured ; his 

 luggage exceeding what the champan could 

 stow. At the junction of the canal with 



